Housatonic WATER ACTION

we deserve clean water

Housatonic is in a water crisis that continues to get worse. An aging infrastructure, untrusted private utility owner, and a water source plagued with manganese result in brown water for many residents every summer.

Report Your Issues

Add to Discoloration Map

Request a Test

Support Our Efforts

DISCOLORATION Map

Brown Water? Add to the map by filling out this form.

Click on any of the locations bubbles below to see issues reported by Housatonic Water Works customers since October 2024.

The purpose of this map is a central repository for our water issues. For any issue you report here, please also report it to the Great Barrington Board of Health.

(*Brown tags on the map were reported during line flushing)

How we can help each other

Housatonic Water Action was created as a grassroots project to document our issues in a central spot. We are growing:

We’re working with Ramsdell Library to offer a Revolving Water fund this summer, after handing out over 400 gallons of water to our neighbors since October.
We are raising money to bring manganese testing to all Housatonic Water Works customers who request it.
We are asking people to share their issues, raise complaints, and call people in power to alert them of our crisis.
We are actively working to to get every resident your $600 rebate and exhaust the $250,000 emergency grant from the state to assist with the crisis.
We are documenting coverage of our crisis from local and national news outlets, gathering information about manganese.